NurseYoshi

I'd like to join! So during my nursing program, I didn't do very well on most exams, especially when it came to medsurg because one teacher wrote really poor questions that made no sense (even when I went to review with her). So along cane the medsu...

Hi! I also live in Alabama and I've noticed our ICUs here don't have techs, but they do have secretaries. I asked some nurses about it and the secretaries double as techs, so if they need assistance rolling/cleaning/anything with a patient, the secre...

I work on a respiratory care unit. We have a lot of total care patients, so unlike the rest of the hospital we don't walk all our patients every morning (why would we force patients to get up and walk between 3-5am anyways?) on my unit we are respons...

I was a PCT for a year and some months during nursing school on a Stepdown unit and interviewed in two ERs, but neither really felt right for me right now. I promise you that these next few years (and years and years) I'll be playing around trying to...

That's what I did over the summer (I worked FT as a tech but I'm prn) and lately I've had a hard time adjusting. I just graduated and will be FT nights starting in 2 weeks. I can't seem to sleep since I passed NCLEX last week. I'm trying to re-figure...

I precepted in a Pediatric ER and did well when it came to communicating with the child(ren) and parents, but as far as skills and assessments, I felt so rushed and like I couldn't learn the skills I needed in that fast paced environment. I took a jo...

I think I only felt good because of the number of SATA I had. Then I started looking up what I chose as my answers and was like "wrong. Wrong. Wrong again." And I felt so bad. Don't stress about it. I know that seems hard, but you did your part so le...

I just now checked my board of nursing website and I passed! I'm so excited!

One of my church friends moved to Mississippi a few years back! She wanted to do travel nursing and decided she'd be better off moving and getting a compact license. It seems like majority of my classmates that have already taken NCLEX passed. The f...

I finished in about an hour(ish). I had about 18 SATA, 3-4 of those put in order (drag and drop?) type questions, and I think I only had one EKG.i would get so nervous after finishing a SATA question if it went back to a multiple choice question. I s...

I'm taking the NCLEX tomorrow (today? Jan 9) as well! I WISH my Hurst scores were nearly that good. I'm so anxious. Glad mine isn't until 2pm! Best of luck!

I thought this was the delivery room I bring my dog to so I can go on vacation. She might also be prego, I don't know.

So I was hired as a tech (PCA, CNA, whatever) on my unit after I finished my medsurg clinicals on that unit. That's probably not the way you'd be able to go about that, but I'd suggest what SoCaliCNA said and volunteer while working elsewhere. My hos...

Yay! That's so exciting! I'm an Army kid and my mom worked closely with the vet clinic and medical clinic personnel, but she was a food inspector so I can't help you in terms of nursing, plus our most recent base didn't have critical care since they ...

I graduate in 10 days. I applied to a nurse residency in late June/July. I interviewed in September and have another interview in September that I applied for during September. The second interview was for a smaller hospital and they offered me a tec...

CONGRATS EVERYONE WHO STARTED TODAY! I'm so excited for you guys!

I haven't tried it yet. I'm scared that the email is just a part of my imagination and once I actually click on any links, everything will disappear. I already had a nightmare that NCLEX was a huge hallucination and everything disappeared when I got ...

So excited! I got the email for onboarding stuff! It's starting to feel more real! Cannot wait until I'm there! Congrats to everyone starting next week! Also, if anyone could explain the process for TN initial application with exam to me because me a...

Hey guys! I'm just a random person who goes to UAH (in my final semester), but I have TONS of friends that moved down to go to UAB and I just wanted to say CONGRATS! Ps I'm totally jelly that UAB puts your name on your lab coat. My cohort was the fir...

From my understanding, they don't like people requesting off during orientation. I don't know about the rest of the residency time.

It was more of a "Thank you for expressing your interest, however we cannot do that because all areas are full and we do have a waitlist." Kinda like, if it really bugs you enough to want to leave, then leave, but otherwise please stay where you are....

I emailed to ask something similar and was told that everything is full and there's not switching. I'm in Cardiac though. You may try, but just be prepared in case they say no.

The link to send them your shots and stuff? I haven't delved into it much, but when I looked at it, it popped up fine. I do need to get my records of having all those shots though. I just got my copy of my flu shot. lol I may let Vandy do my second T...

I've got 3 pairs of scrubs for my current job (I work PRN so I can work 0-3 times a week depending on my school schedule). I plan to buy some new scrubs but I don't want a closet full. Probably like 4-6 pairs in case one week you're lazy and don't wa...

Scrubs are any color (per what I was told during my interview) unless you're ER or trauma. I don't know where the shirts are from, but I'm starting to get excited again! Thank y'all! Can't wait to meet you all!